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Munich was our next port of call for our tournament excursions with the third round of the European Hurling and Camogie Championships 2024. We sent a full camogie team while our hurlers joined up once again with our friends from Leuven for the day.
Laura, Kat, Killian, Oisín Brennan, Eoin, Jan, Sebastian, Anto, Alanna, Alex, Annie, Annika, Svenja, Julia, and Phoebe were the Celts who represented us here.
These reports come from our hurling coach, Jan Stolle and club PRO, Katharina Breuer:
In May 2024, several Celts played with distinction in the first round of the European Hurling and Camogie Championships. We teamed up with Leuven and came back with some trophies!
Saturday, 6th April 2024, was a big day in the history of the Cologne Celtics GAA Club, as we secured our second German Hurling Cup, and reached the final of the camogie competition before losing out to the hosts, Hamburg GAA. This article was provided by Kat, Frank and Jan.
On Saturday April 22nd, the Cologne Celtics competed in the 2023 edition of the German Hurling and Camogie Cups. This time they were held in Darmstadt. Although we didn’t win either of them, our players represented our club with pride, passion and skill.
On April 1st our camógs and hurlers represented the club with pride and passion as they reached their respective finals. Read about their progress here in this tournament report – compiled by hurling officer, Frank and club secretary, Lea.
On September 24th, 2022, the Cologne Celtics held the German Cups – the Chris Hennessy and Sebastian Rießbeck Cups – in Chorweiler. With the Desmond Brothers TV crew, the head of the German Embassy’s Irish Abroad Unit, and many other guests in the crowd, we enjoyed a full schedule of hard hurling and camogie matches.
On June 11th 2022, the Cologne Celtics hulers faced off against Setanta Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna Gaels and Hamburg GAA while our camoige team faced the hosts in the Darmstadt Tournament. It proved to be a wonderful day for the teams from the Rheinland!
Relive the German Camogie and Hurling Cups 2021 – the Chris Hennessy and Sebastian Rießbeck Cups – held on March 12 2022 in Düsseldorf. A fantastic day for our club, as both our teams came back to Cologne victorious.
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